We've come to this dark time in which the new Gestapo of Homeland Security lurks here, where citizens are having their rights suspended.

Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.

John say's it's James who started first, James tells the story in reverse. I drag my belt from off me waist, you should have heard dem screaming round de place.

I grew up in a school system . . . where nobody understood the meaning of learning disorder. In the West Indies, I was constantly being physically abused because the whipping of students was permitted.

I've always been supportive of the right of Israel as a state, and I've always fought against anti-Semitism, even in my own community.

As a matter of fact, compromise is what oppression feeds on.

Since I have escaped the harshness of the economic bounds of poverty, I have stayed very connected to it spiritually. I reside and live and go and socialize and exist among those who suffer daily from the relationship that they have to poverty, Black men and women who are incarcerated. Actually, all people who are incarcerated, not just Black.